"Version: 20230901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A brief introduction to the physics of non-accreting white dwarfs -- 1.1. A historical background of the study of white dwarfs -- 1.2. Electron degeneracy -- 1.3. The inverse relation between WD mass and radius -- 1.4. The Chandrasekhar limit -- 1.5. Core compositions versus WD mass -- 1.6. Cooling evolution -- 1.7. WD…